Come April 1 and Los Angeles will take a giant leap forward towards increasing its green power supply by providing renewable energy to 70,000 homes.
The Los Angeles city council has approved two agreements to pave way for the supply of the renewable green energy and this will boost Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s target to increase the city’s renewable power supply to 20% by the year 2010.
H. David Nahai, president of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners said,
This is an excellent opportunity to immediately increase the amount of clean, renewable energy for the City of Los Angeles. LADWP is taking a multi-pronged approach to meeting its RPS commitment of 20% by 2010. The agency is utilizing power purchase agreements such as this as a bridge to increasing our supply of renewable energy in the short term, while pursuing plans to build renewable power generation for ownership over the long term.
Under the agreements between Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the nation’s largest municipal utility and Powerex Corp., LADWP will purchase renewable energy from small hydro-electric generating facilities in the Pacific Northwest in the first year and subsequently, they can obtain it other renewable energy like small hydro, biomass and landfill gas.
Via: Unplugged Living
